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Dead Astronauts

by Jeff VanderMeer

A surreal, shape-shifting rebellion unfolds across fractured worlds as humans, beasts, and monsters fight an all-powerful corporation for the fate of every Earth.

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About Dead Astronauts

Under the watchful eye of The Company, three characters -- Grayson, Moss and Chen -- three very different rebels, make their way through forces that would consume them. A blue fox, a giant fish and language stretched to the limit. A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden. Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earth - all the Earths.

Reading signals

Spice
None
Darkness
Dark
Pacing
Slow

Series

Borne · Book 2 of 2

Content warnings
  • animal death
  • animal cruelty
  • body horror
  • gore
  • child abuse
  • violence
  • death
  • medical trauma
  • war
  • torture

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